Tag Archive: waqf

Messages from Leslie and the waqf

Those of you who get these updates by email saw a curious email from “Leslie Mills.” That was an error, the email was not meant to have come from her. In case you missed it because of that reason, the post that month was a well considered one on Waqf, and how giving to one [...]

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Lots of ways giving to a Waqf can be a bad idea

Muslims tend to be charitable by nature.   Here in Southern California, the Muslim community  and perhaps in other communities around the country, it is fundraising season again.  Many organizations are holding banquets  and doing fundraising in order to meet their annual budgets. In some cases, organizations would like to be able to build for [...]

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Charity: Vanity in giving

An interesting argument by William Drennan in the Alabama Law Review, proposing a limit by with the name of a charity can be modified.  It starts and makes reference to one of my favortte examples of testamentary excess, Leona Helmsley's gift to the dog world.   People put their names on all kinds of things, [...]

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